Fissidens zollingeri Mont.

Gomes do Nascimento, Géssica Maria, Conceição, Gonçalo Mendes da, Fernandes Peralta, Denilson & Oliveira, Hermeson Cassiano de, 2020, Bryophytes of Sete Cidades National Park, Piauí, Brazil, Check List 16 (4), pp. 969-988 : 978

* Fissidens zollingeri Mont.

New records. BRAZIL • 1 specimen; Piauí, Piracu- ruca, Sete Cidades National Park , II Cidade; 04°05′85″S, 041°41′69″W; 3 Feb. 2017; G. M. G Nascimento leg. (HUESPI 581) .

Identification. Cells large, long-rectangular, pellucid

in the median region of vaginate lamina; leaves entirely limbate, oblong-lanceolate. This species resembles F. bryoides and F. crispus . However, F. bryoides possesses a percurrent costa and shorter leaves, while the latter possesses a costa that is precurrent or terminating a few cells below the apex and a dentate margin of the apex and dorsal lamina. Briocenological group: saxicolous and terricolous.

Brazilian range. AC, AL, AM, BA, CE, DF, ES, GO, MA, MG, MS, MT, PA, PB, PE, PR, RJ, RO, RR, RS, SC, SE, SP, TO (broadly distributed).